Word: lawyer
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...defendants in the espionage trial were hardly the most dangerous of spies. Ronald Humphrey, 42, emerged in the testimony as a naive, lovelorn officer in the U.S. Information Agency whose lawyer insisted he never meant to harm the U.S. although he delivered Government documents to a foreign agent. David Truong, 32, a Vietnamese peace activist, said he simply wanted to help effect a rapprochement between the U.S. and his homeland...
Orlov's opportunity to defend himself was sharply restricted. John MacDonald, the British lawyer whom Orlov had wanted as his attorney, was not allowed to enter the Soviet Union. In his place, the court appointed Yevgeni Shalman, a Moscow lawyer who, according to MacDonald, has "worked for the KGB for a time." Neither Orlov nor Shalman, moreover, could cross-examine the prosecution's 15 witnesses or call witnesses of their...
...knows the extent to which the Bakke decision will affect thousands of affirmative-action programs in business, education and government. "Everybody is holding their breath. Courts and defendants are trying to do as little as possible until they see what the Bakke decision will say," says one lawyer. Notes Joseph Rauh, a leading civil rights attorney in Washington: "I don't blame the courts. They don't want to rule one way today and be reversed by the Supreme Court next month...
What seemed to upset the appellate court most, however, was the fact that Corona, unable to pay the heavy legal fees for a case of such magnitude, granted Hawk exclusive literary and dramatic property rights to his life story in return for the lawyer's services. Even before the trial began. Hawk had hired a professional writer and negotiated a contract with Macmillan for a book about the case. This created a conflict of interest, said the court, that resulted in "an outrageous abrogation" of Corona's rights and "rendered the trial a farce and mockery...
...child who has reached majority may sue his parents for a wrong that may have occurred during his minority, and in such cases the statute of limitations does not start to run until majority is reached. Suits on such vague grounds as Hansen's. however, are unusual: his lawyer describes the case as "a suit for the malpractice of parenting...